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I guess NPR hasn’t given in entirely. Yet.

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[–] meowmeowbeanz@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago

The current administration’s mass deportation dragnet isn’t about law and order—it’s about manufacturing a crisis to distract from their own incompetence. Targeting non-criminal immigrants under the guise of “protecting jobs” is just political theater, a way to rally the base with performative cruelty while ignoring systemic rot.

This isn’t enforcement. It’s state-sanctioned scapegoating, trading human dignity for cheap applause from nativists who’ve never met an ICE form in their lives. The irony? The same politicians crying about “illegals” rely on undocumented labor to mow their lawns and build their hotels.

The real crime here isn’t crossing a line on a map. It’s the moral bankruptcy of a system that criminalizes desperation while shrugging at wage theft and worker exploitation. But sure, let’s blame the people cleaning office buildings at midnight instead of the oligarchs hoarding wealth like dragons.